In the ten years since Dr. Atul Gawande published The Checklist Manifesto, the use of checklists has proliferated in fields from medicine to investing. Gawande, a surgeon, made a particular focus on ...

As a business owner, you bear the responsibility of the safety of your employees. This requires you to ensure that your workplace and working conditions are as safe as possible. An employee injury can ...

Many of us have repetitive tasks to complete. Often we find that if we don’t have any guidance, we may forget certain steps in a process. Sometimes even with simple steps involved we can get ...

In recent years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has undertaken a number of global and regional initiatives to improve the safety of surgical care. Its 2008 Safe Surgery Saves Lives campaign ...

When you have a stressful job like a doctor or a pilot, you’re faced with executing complex tasks everyday with very high rates of success. How do such professionals even get started when the task at ...

It’s tempting to assume that employees, managers, and leaders will naturally prioritize tasks and follow procedures. However, relying solely on memory or trust is an unreliable strategy. Instead, ...

Checklists are essential to tackling a project thoroughly and completely. They ensure there is process cohesion between parties who may be involved in completing them and, most importantly, that ...

Have you ever spent hours preparing a big presentation only to find your laptop battery out of charge moments before speaking? Or perhaps you've tried to outsource time-consuming tasks in your ...